From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tarot \Tar"ot\, n. [F.; cf. It. tarocco.]
1. A game of cards; -- called also {taroc}. --Hoyle.
[1913 Webster]
2. any of a set of 22 playing cards which bear allegorical
images representing various objects or influences
affecting human life, and widely used in fortunetelling;
they are also used as trumps in the game of taroc. Various
images are used by different artists to represent the
themes of each card.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tarot
n 1: any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards
representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.;
used by fortunetellers [syn: {tarot card}, {tarot}]

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